Beauty Quotes

• "When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discretest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount'nanc'd, and like folly shows."
  By: John Milton
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• "Beauty is God's handwriting,--a wayside sacrament."
  By: John Milton
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• "In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing."
  By: Giuseppe Mazzini
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• "Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it."
  By: Charles Robert Maturin
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• "'Tis evanescence that endures; The loveliness that dies the soonest has the longest life. The rainbow is a momentary thing, The afterglows are ashes while we gaze."
  By: Donald Marquis (Donald Robert Perry Marquis) ("Don Marquis"), The Paradox
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• "O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."
  By: Christopher Marlowe, Faustus
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• "Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth. Upon the earth without a meet alloy."
  By: George MacDonald, Within and Without (pt. IV, sc. 3)
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• "Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known."
  By: Lord George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton ("The Good Lord Lyttelton"), Soliloquy of a Beauty in the Country (l. 13)
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• "Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle."
  By: Lord George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton ("The Good Lord Lyttelton"), Soliloquy of a Beauty in the Country (l. 11)
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• "You are beautiful and faded Like an old opera tune Played upon a harpsichord."
  By: Amy Lowell, A Lady
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• "Oh, could you view the melodie Of ev'ry grace, And musick of her face, You'd drop a teare, Seeing more harmonie In her bright eye, Then now you heare."
  By: Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts
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• "Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wreck of the Hesperus (st. 2)
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• "Beautiful in form and feature, Lovely as the day, Can there be so fair a creature Formed of common clay?"
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora--The Workshop of Hephoestus--Chorus of the Graces
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• "Beauty or unbecomingness is of more force to draw or deter invitation than any discourses which can be made to them."
  By: John Locke (1)
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• "That which is striking and beautiful is not always good but that which is good is always beautiful."
  By: Ninon de L'Enclos (real name Anne L'Enclos)
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• "'Tis beauty calls, and glory shows the way."
  By: Nathaniel Lee, Alexander the Great; or The Rival Queens (act IV, sc. 2)
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